Bottineau School District 1

From Mrs. LaFromboise:

On Monday, March 30 we had a team of four 8th graders represent our school at State MathCounts in Bismarck. The competition was very tough, but they gave it their best effort. In order to place, a team had to be in the top 4 out of 40 teams or in the top 30 for individuals out of 160 competitors.

Although they didn't place at state, they were still the top team representing Region 3 (Bottineau, Renville, Rolette, and Ward counties).

I am very proud of how well they represented Bottineau Public School and our region!

Participants:
Gabe LaFromboise
Tim Bentley
Adam Boettcher
Austin O'Toole

Bottineau Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) had 29 members attend the state conference this week in Bismarck. Students who placed in the top for their category were recognized on stage:
Kyra Brossart - 3rd Place in Retail Management (Nationals Qualifier)
Ashlyn Follman - 4th Place in Entrepreneurship (Nationals Qualifier) and 6th Place in Business Communications
Emma Ellis - 5th Place in Public Administration and Management (Nationals Alternate)
Hudson McLain - 7th Pace in Retail Management
Kamden Kortgaard - 10th Place in Project Management

In addition, sophomore, Matt Hamilton won his campaign for ND FBLA Treasurer for the 2026-27 school year and will start his officer duties by attending the National Conference in San Antonio, TX as a representative of ND FBLA and Bottineau FBLA!

On Friday, the Horticulture class finished a unit in floral design with a hands on learning lab. Each student got to design and arrange their own flower bouquet. These will be on display in different classrooms around the school until fair time.

Congrats to our Lunch Staff!

From Amanda Olson (DPI Child Nutrition):

All hail the Queens of the Cafeteria!

Bottineau Public School is the winner of the March Tray of the Month! Congratulations! Thank you for making school nutrition so fun for your students! Excellent work!

Mrs. Stewart took her students tubing at the Bottineau Winter Park on Tuesday, March 24th. It looks like they had a blast!

In world history we are covering WWI. We discussed how much of the war was fought in trenches along the Western and Eastern Fronts. Today, students built trenches, listened to "trench sounds" and excerpts from "All Quiet on the Western Front." They then wrote letters from the trenches. For a little fun at the end they got to simulate trenches warfare.

Spanish Club hosted an appetizer-cooking night and a watch party with the movie The Book of Life

Congrats to the 2026 Food Truck winners-- Swine and Dine! Way to go Warren and Katie!

Food Truck Frenzy is Mrs. Aasen's Food Class today

Congratulations to our February Students of the Month: Kyra Boppre, Mataya LaFromboise, and Lylah Baade. The trait for the month was empathy.

We have started the ND State Assessment - 7th graders take the Reading, Writing and Math. 8th graders will take Reading, Writing, Math and Science. 10th grade will complete the Reading, Writing, Math and Science. Here is a link for more information on the A+ testing. This is where you will be able to get your student's results.
https://ndaplus.mypearsonsupport.com/family-resources.html

From Mrs. Costa: Bottineau FFA competed at State Winter CDE in Minot. Anna Tiffany was awarded bronze in Ag Sales, Deering Thompson was awarded bronze in agronomy.  Marie Sand was awarded silver and Hailey Myer bronze in Livestock Judging with the team earning a bronze award. 

The Spanish 2 & 3 students made traditional Spanish tapas to sample.  Tapas are common in Spain.  They are small portions of a wide variety of foods that friends and family share while hanging out together. 

At the Speech Meet in Velva this weekend, Sam Bentley State Qualified in Radio Broadcasting (for the 3rd time!).

Congrats to Emerson Marum, Conner Guss, and Landen Solberg for being named to the All Region 3A team! Way to go guys!

Good luck Braves basketball as they play Rugby tonight at 5:30pm with the winner advancing to the State qualifier game this Saturday Go Braves!!

Stream: https://psp.network/

Ticket Info: https://gofan.co/app/school/NDHSAA
Go Fan: Adults $11
Cash: Adults $15
Students: $5

DECA took 10 students to compete at State DECA. Ashlyn and Maren made the final round in their Innovation Plan event but fell just short of qualifying for Nationals. Ellee Rybchinski also placed 4th in her event. Bottineau DECA will be attending the ICDC in April in Atlanta bringing 4 member to the Emerging Leaders conference.

*Ashlyn Follman received an Outstanding Senior Award and Tyson Getzlaff was named Outstanding New Member

Good luck to our BHS musicians as they travel to Minot today to compete in the Large Group Music Festival!

Congratulations to Hallie Nero for being named to the Class A All State 2nd Team! Way to go Hallie!